NACPM Equity Resource Guide

Black Mamas Matter Resources

Books

• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Maree Brown
• White Like Me, Tim Wise
• Black Birthing Justice, Julia Oparah
• Witnessing Whiteness, Shelly Tochluk
• So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
• Filter Shift by Sara Taylor
• Let’s Get Real, Lee Mun Wah
• The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
• Japanese American Midwives – Culture, Community and Health Politics, 1880-1950
• (Asian American Experience) Susan L. Smith

Links and trainings:

• Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
• White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Working in Women’s Studies
• 11-Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege
• Stir Fry Seminars - Training Films, Books and Seminars in Berkeley
• From UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach: Unconscious Bias Resources
• Exploring Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine (a YouTube video interview with author Howard Ross)
• Strategies to Assess Unconscious Bias
• Test yourself related to implicit bias
• California Families for Access to Midwives (CFAM): Amazing resource guide!
• From Midwives Association of Washington State.

Resources on Healthcare Disparities and Undoing Racism and Oppression in Healthcare and the Delivery of Healthcare

• Transcript (PDF) from “When the Bough Breaks” a film segment that examines the mystery of the Black-white infant mortality gap from the film series “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
  
• Dr. Camara Jones describes three kinds of racism

Video Clips

• Segment excerpt from "When the Bough Breaks" - Kim Anderson’s story
  
• Segment excerpt from "When the Bough Breaks": Unraveling the mystery of Black-white differences in infant mortality
  
• Video Clips and Information about the Series: Un-Natural Causes...Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Additional Resources

For a wealth of additional information related to this topic, visit the following RESOURCES PAGE, which is divided into the following topics:

• Racism 101
  
• White Privilege 101
  
• Impact of Racism & Oppression on Birth Outcomes
  
• Racism in Midwifery
  
• Multicultural Midwifery History
  
• Intersections of Race, Gender, Class
  
• For Activists
  
• For Clinicians
  
• –> LGBT Healthcare
  
• For Educators
  
• How to Be an Ally
  
• Talking With Children
  

For more information about Anti-racism and anti-oppression work in midwifery, visit the AROMidwifery Blog or join the AROM facebook group.

For the edition of the "Giving Birth to Midwives" Newsletter devoted to issues of equity and inclusivity in the midwifery profession, read the October 2012 AME (Association of Midwifery Educators) Newsletter

We have just begun compiling these resources for your reference. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it's a start. Please email additional resources you would like to see included on this page tovp@californiamidwives.org.